Past Issues of Bandon Historical Journal

In this issue:

• Biography and global connections, including the life of Rev. James Long of Bengal and the England family of Cork and Bandon

• Revolutionary history and commemoration, with accounts of Michael Collins’s final journey and Bandon’s remembrance of the Great War

• Social and community history, featuring a study of the Bandon Credit Union and everyday life in times of hardship

• Early modern conflict and its human impact, examining women, refugees, and civilian experience during the 1641 rebellion

• Famine-era Bandon, with a detailed examination of the workhouse and local responses to crisis

• Irish-language scholarship and clerical history centred on Dónall Ó Súilleabháin in Bandon

• Notes, excursions, and visual material, including visits to Millstreet and St. Peter’s Church, Ballymodan

• Society records, with membership and events for 2025

In this issue:

• Scientific and environmental history, including Patrick Ganly and the geological shaping of West Cork

• Revolutionary and military history, featuring the Coolfadda Ambush and personal stories linked to the Manchester Regiment

• Legal and political sources, with extracts relating to the repatriation of the Manchester Martyrs

• Irish-language prose and poetry

• Cartographic and urban history, including a mid-nineteenth-century map of Bandon

• Industrial and economic life, with studies of distillation and Bandon’s historic distilleries

• Literary and cultural analysis, examining fiction and land agitation

• Personal correspondence and emigrant connections linking Bandon and North America

• Notes, obituaries, excursions, and additional photographs documenting community life and heritage

In this issue:

• Revolutionary-era history, with detailed continuations on casualties in the Bandon Battalion area and the Truce in the Cork No. 111 Brigade

• Military and political biography, including a study of Captain Frank Hurley, I.R.A., and the arrival of the Civic Guard in Bandon

• Religious and ecclesiastical history, examining Methodism in Bandon and reflections on faith, translation, and belief

• Urban and industrial heritage, with an in-depth look at Bandon’s manor house and mills

• Social thought and cultural debate, featuring J.J. Walsh’s views on women’s place in society

• Scientific and cartographic history, highlighting Patrick Ganly’s contribution to West Cork geology and the mapping of Ireland

• Notes, photographs, and community records, including society visits, historic river imagery, and membership details for 2022

In this issue:

• Revolutionary and civil war history, with detailed studies of casualties, truces, and personal memories from the War of Independence and Civil War period

• Biography and character studies, including James Connolly’s doctor, Brigadier General Seán Hales, and lesser-known local figures of national significance

• Land agitation and political movements, examining the Land League, the Land War in fiction, and West Cork’s radical tradition

• Personal and family histories, with childhood recollections from the 1920s and accounts of survival through troubled times

• Local heritage and landscape, featuring Ballymodan Graveyard viewed from above and notes on historic houses and bridges

• Irish-language scholarship and cultural memory, with studies of poets, patriots, and regional figures

• Investigative local history, revisiting a century-old kidnapping mystery involving Lord Bandon

• Society material, including notes, additional photographs, and membership details for 2021

In this issue:

• Biographical studies of Sir George Strickland Kingston and Charles Fawcett (1878–1944)

• Bandon men in British naval service during the eighteenth century

• The memorial to the 3rd Brigade of the Irish Republican Army in Bandon

• Triple Tragedy in Bandon – the story of a fatal local accident

• The Bandon town mace (c.1700) and the Town Commissioners election of 1934

• The early years of Meanscoil na Banndan and the literary legacy of Pádraig Tyers

• Bandon connections abroad: veterans in the Invalides, Paris, and the Gaelic Sports Club of Luxembourg

• A child’s recollection of the “Troubles” in West Cork, 1920

• Notes and additional photographs relating to Bandon’s built and educational heritage

In this issue:

• Religious, artistic, and ecclesiastical history, including studies of Bishop William Delany and sculptor John Lawlor

• Local families and community life, featuring the Sherlock family

• Policing and state history, with articles on the Royal Irish Constabulary and Sergeant William Mulherin

• Irish-language scholarship and cultural commentary

• Early medieval archaeology, presenting new evidence from Templemartin

• Literary and social analysis of West Cork society through the work of Lennox Robinson

• Military and imperial history, examining Bandon men in British forces in the eighteenth century

• Archival remembrance, including an obituary of historian and archivist Brendan O’Donoghue

• Notes and additional photographs documenting markets, excursions, and local churches

In this issue:

• Landscape, landholding, and environment, including studies of tithe assessments and the flood gates of the River Bandon

• Revolutionary and military history, featuring accounts of ambushes and the IRA’s attempted gunrunning from Italy (1920)

• Biographical studies of notable local and national figures, including Colonel S. R. Tresilian and Daniel Murphy, church builder

• Literary and cultural history, with articles on West Cork writing, Kinsale novelists, and poetic reflection

• Irish-language scholarship and translation studies

• Architectural and ecclesiastical history relating to churches and religious art

• Political and social history, including a profile of a future prime minister with Bandon connections

• Notes and additional photographs documenting excursions, artworks, and Cumann Seanchais activities

In this issue:

• Education and intellectual life in Bandon, including Lordan’s Classical Academy

• Place-names and landscape, with a study of the term “gneeve” in Ordnance Survey mapping

• Poetry and commemoration, including verse marking a tragic death in Kilbrittain

• Nineteenth-century Bandon in a wider context, from the Lord Lieutenant’s visit to Cork (1852) to the Bandon Food Riots of 1792

• Revolutionary and military history, including a War of Independence ambush at Gaggin and Bandon men granted the status of invalide

• Local families and figures, including the Manchester Martyr William Philip Allen

• Irish-language prose and folklore

• Notes, book reviews, and additional photographs documenting churches, houses, excursions, stained glass, and community life

In this issue:

• West Cork history and memory, including fiction and reflections on the “Wild Geese”

• First-hand revolutionary sources, featuring the witness statement of Commandant Peter Kearney on the Battle of Crossbarry (1920)

• Biographical studies of notable local figures, including Michael Walsh and James Laurence O’Donovan

• Industrial and economic history, with a study of Allman’s Bandon Distillery (1826–1925)

• Irish-language prose and poetry, including reflections on emigration and loss

• Social change in rural Ireland, explored through the Rural Electrification Scheme

• Parish and local studies, including Kilbrogan Parish from Lewis’s Cork

• Notes and additional photographs documenting meetings, excursions, historic documents, and streetscapes in Bandon

In this issue:

• First-hand and analytical accounts of the 1916 Rising, including a diary extract and studies of its impact on Bandon and district

• Religious and architectural history, with the building of Bandon Methodist Manse and church-related developments

• Industrial and transport history, covering flax and linen production, the West Cork Railway, and commercial links abroad

• Social and everyday life in Bandon, from life in 1834 to personal recollections and favourite legal cases

• Political and cultural commentary, including Irish-language material and reflections on local figures

• Supplementary notes and photographs revisiting local landmarks, outings, and corrections to earlier research

• Society records, with membership and programme details for 2015

In this issue:

• Early modern and maritime history, including seventeenth-century Bandon river shipping and an uneasy visit to Castle Bernard in 1791

• Irish-language scholarship and education, with studies of school visits, rural travel, and cultural memory

• Biography and ecclesiastical history, featuring Bishop John England, Fr. Thomas Shinnick, and an appreciation of Ted Harte

• Social and labour history, examining farm labourers in the 1880s and controversial agricultural practices in West Cork

• Local landscape and heritage, with detailed studies of Kilbrogan Church and graveyard and the story behind Jack Applebe’s Cross

• Women’s history and education, highlighting Dora Allman as an early female medical graduate

• Literary and cultural contributions, including ballads by Patrick Jones and a contemporary book review

• Visual and community history, with photographs spanning church life, town walls, excursions, and festivals

• Society records, including membership, programme details for 2012, and editorial notes

In this issue:

• Economic and industrial history, including a study of Bandon’s textile industry and early telephone services

• Creative responses to history, with a one-act play based on the Kilmichael Ambush

• Nineteenth-century literary and historical writing on Bandon and its hinterland

• Clerical and parish history, featuring Fr Thomas Shinnick P.P. (1778–1814)

• Revolutionary period studies, including volunteer casualties at Brinny and Kilmichael

• Local families and landed estates, with a detailed account of the Bernards of Bandon (1639–1921)

• Biography and popular history, including the real-life story behind “Private Ryan”

• Additional photographs documenting Bandon streetscapes, bridges, excursions, and early twentieth-century town life

In this issue:

• Local families and landed history, including the O’Mahonys of Kinelmeaky and their legacy

• Literary and historical scholarship on Bandon and its writers

• Cultural critique and social commentary, from sporting history to public debate

• Biography and remembrance, including tributes to Tomás Mac Seoin and other notable figures

• Bandon’s wider connections, with an account of a visit to Bandon, Oregon

• Memoir and reprinted sources, including reminiscences of Ballymoney and Ballineen

• Health, society, and mortality in historical perspective

• Transport and urban history, featuring Allman’s tramway in Bandon

• Social and musical life, with concert programmes from the 1930s

• Additional photographs documenting excursions, visitors, and streetscapes

In this issue:

• Built and landscape heritage, including a study of Lord Bandon’s Ice House

• Rural and agricultural life, with Daniel Corkery’s Fairs and nineteenth-century excursions from Bandon

• Military and revolutionary history, featuring R.S.M. John M. Ring and Volunteer Michael McLean

• Social and cultural life in the twentieth century, including a 1930s concert programme and memories of “Bandon Week” (1973)

• Biography and remembrance, including tributes to Finola Keyes McDonnell and local figures

• Irish-language history and cultural commentary relating to Droichead na Bandan

• Community organisations and heritage activism, with an interview on the West Cork Heritage Centre and community co-operative

• Notes and additional photographs documenting excursions, streetscapes, bridges, and everyday life in Bandon

In this issue:

• Political and landed history, opening with the first part of a major study on the rise of Richard Boyle

• Cultural origins and local tradition, exploring the beginnings of The Humours of Bandon

• Sporting achievement, recounting the Boston Marathon victory by a Bandon-born runner in 1903

• Remembrance and appreciation, including a memorial tribute to Risteárd Ó Glaisine and a reflection on Bandon: 400 Years of History

• Revolutionary and nationalist history, with studies of the Manchester Martyrs and reprinted recollections of a rebel

• Religious and ecclesiastical history, featuring an account of the Bandon Methodist Church

• Biography and popular memory, including the story of Timothy “Thady” Murphy and a study of labour leader Pat Deasy

• Visual and society records, documenting visits by local history societies and the 25th anniversary celebrations of Cumann Seanchais

• Society administration, with programme details for 2004 and membership information

In this issue:

• Political and social history, including The Manchester Martyrs (Part 1) and the founding of Cumann Seanchais na Banndan

• Eighteenth-century West Cork through contemporary accounts of towns and countryside (1748)

• Local families and figures, including the England family of Bandon and Corkman James Vincent Murphy

• Bandon and wider world connections, from the Dardanelles campaign to continental Europe

• Irish-language scholarship on early twentieth-century poetry and criticism

• Reflections on famine in West Cork and personal memoirs of early life in Bandon

• Community life and achievement, including All-Ireland bowling champion Denny Murphy (1957)

• Local records and administration, featuring the Bandon Skellig List (1843) and the Bandon Union, 1880–1881

• Supplementary photographs relating to education and local history

In this issue:

• Biography and emigration, featuring the first part of a study of Thomas England, a Bandon-born architect who made his career in California

• Educational history in Bandon, with an in-depth examination of the Hamilton High School premises and the Bandon Endowed School

• Revolutionary period documentation, including British Army inquiry material on the casualties of the Crossbarry ambush

• Parish and ecclesiastical history, with studies of Holy Trinity Parish, Rathclarin

• Industrial and environmental history, exploring limestone burning at Anac’Hali and landlord–tenant relations

• Social welfare and governance, examining the Bandon Poor Law Guardians in the early 1870s

• Irish-language literature, with selected verses from Fear Feasa Ón Cháinte of Curravordy

• Personal memoir, beginning with My Early Years, recalling life in Butlerstown, Bandon

• Visual and photographic records, including nineteenth-century views of Watergate and Bandon Railway goods facilities

• Society activity and administration, with programme details for 2002 and membership information

In this issue:

• Religious and social history in Bandon, including the visits of John and Charles Wesley and the development of Methodism

• Political life and local elections, examining Bandon before and after the Parnell Split

• Revolutionary period history, with a detailed account of Easter Week 1916 and the Ballinadee Battalion of the Irish Volunteers

• Irish-language scholarship and biography, featuring a study of Thaddeus O’Mahony as scholar and poet

• Industrial and urban history, including a reprinted account of the 1898 fire at Pope’s Timber Mill

• Agricultural and intellectual life, with an appreciation of George Rye and his work Considerations on Agriculture

• Built heritage, with a comprehensive history of Kilbrittain Castle

• Emigration and memory, recounting chance encounters with Bandon men abroad

• Illustrated material and visual records, including historic chapels, aerial photography, and Lawrence Collection images

• Society activities and administration, with programme details for 2000 and membership information

In this issue:

• Local character and cultural memory, including reflections on the “Humours of Bandon” and the life of Captain Francis O’Neill

• Economic and social history, tracing Ireland’s currency from the pound to the euro

• Folklore and education, featuring material from the 1937 Schools’ Folklore Collection in Clonakilty

• Revolutionary period history, with the concluding instalment of The National Struggle 1913–21 pictorial series

• Travel and tourism, including a reprint from the 1854 Illustrated Handbook for Ireland covering the Cork–Bandon–Killarney route

• Local and international connections, examining Bandon links with New Zealand and broader Irish migration

• Institutional and architectural history, including studies of Dunmanway Model School and Shinagh House

• Civic and popular culture, with articles on bands, banners, and public commemorations

• Illustrated material and rare photographs, including Michael Collins, Sam Maguire, and nineteenth-century engravings

• Society business, with programme details for 1999 and membership information

In this issue:

• Local biography and political history, including a detailed study of George Bennett and Daniel O’Connell’s 1839 visit to Bandon

• Agricultural and rural practices in West Cork, examining the sourcing and use of sea sand by farmers

• Famine-era history, with a reprinted account of Fr. Daniel McSwiney

• Education and folklore, featuring material from the 1937 Schools’ Folklore Collection

• Revolutionary period documentation, with a pictorial record of Crossbarry during the War of Independence

• Social and economic development, including early banking in Bandon and the town’s role in rural electrification

• Transport and everyday life, with a retrospective on Bandon Railway Station in the 1950s

• Visual records and commemorative material, including historic photographs, monuments, and society notes for 1997

In this issue:

• Education and schooling in Bandon, including studies of M. Édouart, Bandon Grammar School (1937), and school folklore

• Built and artistic heritage, featuring Timoleague Castle and historic chapel studies

• Political and popular history, with contemporary accounts of Daniel O’Connell in Bandon (1839)

• Sport, culture, and identity, including Sam Maguire and early twentieth-century football history

• Transport and everyday life, from rail travel to memories of the Bandon Head Post Office in the 1920s

• Revolutionary period history, with a pictorial record of the death of Charlie Hurley

• Visual and photographic records, including aerial photography of Bandon

• Literature and biography, featuring a Donn Byrne conspectus

• Society life, with membership details and programme information for 1996

In this issue:

• Religious and community life in Bandon and West Cork, including a study of the Quakers

• Revolutionary and local memory, with accounts of the men of Kilmichael

• Trade, industry, and civic power, examining salt production and the Corporation of Salt Makers of Bandonbridge

• Transport and infrastructure, featuring Bandon’s second railway

• Irish-language history and cultural organisations, including Conradh na Gaeilge in Bandon

• Biographical and cultural studies of leading local figures

• Everyday life and commerce in the nineteenth century, with an article on shopping

• Education and civic celebration, including the Bandon Grammar School Garden Fête (1948)

• Architectural and heritage appreciation, featuring St Patrick’s Church (1836)

• Additional photographs documenting schools, groups, and community life

In this issue:

• Ecclesiastical and religious history, including studies of notable bishops and clergy associated with Bandon

• Political and military change in early modern Ireland, examining Bandon’s shifting loyalties during the Cromwellian period

• Folklore, custom, and Irish-language cultural writing

• Castle, townscape, and built heritage, including Macroom Castle, Bandon Town Hall, and the laneways of the town

• Medical, scientific, and intellectual history, with articles on Denis Charles O’Connor and Cornelius O’Sullivan

• Revolutionary period history, featuring a pictorial record of Bandon in 1920

• Biography and remembrance, including an appreciation of Fr Christy Walsh

• Supplementary editorial notes on local families, clergy, and Brinny Mill

• Additional photographs documenting bridges, schools, and community life

• Society business and events for 1992

In this issue:

• Emigration and global connections, tracing journeys from Bandon to Adelaide

• Political tension and security during the Emergency period

• Archival and local history projects, including renewed study of the Lismore Papers

• Social welfare and community support, with an account of the Old Bandon Coal Fund

• Revolutionary and military history, covering Bandon during 1917–1919 and conflict in the Bandon Valley

• Irish-language history and cultural commentary

• Photographic and visual records of mid-twentieth-century Bandon

• Biography and remembrance, including a tribute to Christy O’Leary

• Notes on cultural landscapes and rural life

In this issue:

• Folklore and traditional culture, with studies of customs and local memory

• Transport and industrial heritage, focusing on Clonakilty Junction (1886–1961)

• Parliamentary and political history, including Alexander Swanston MP for Bandon Bridge

• Biography and remembrance, featuring a tribute to Bruno O’Donoghue

• Irish-language history and cultural commentary

• Urban and civic history, examining name changes in Bandon streets

• Commemoration and national memory, marking the 75th anniversary of 1916

• Religious history, with an account of Methodism in Bandon

• Bandon’s global connections, tracing links with New Bandon, New Brunswick

• Song, symbolism, and popular culture, including Maid of Erin

• Society business, with membership and programme details for 1990

In this issue:

• Crime, justice, and social tension in nineteenth-century West Cork, including the murder of Rev. Charles Ferguson (1832)

• Biography and personal achievement, featuring a Ballinadee athlete

• Policing and administration, with studies of county inspectors of constabulary and local volunteers

• Urban and commercial life, drawing on Thom’s Directory for Bandon in 1944

• Industrial and rural heritage, including Brinny Mill

• Folklore and oral tradition from the Bandon area

• Remembrance and obituary, including a tribute to Liam Ó Donnchadha (1913–1989)

• Society life, with membership and programme details for 1989

• Historic photographs documenting religious, educational, and commercial life in mid-twentieth-century Bandon

In this issue:

• Political and social power in nineteenth-century Ireland, explored through studies of land, authority, and eviction

• Land, infrastructure, and planning, including a proposal for a canal through West Cork

• Clerical and community figures, with biographical studies of Rev. William Hickey and Martin Doyle

• Revolutionary period memory, including Tom Barry’s wedding (1921)

• Cultural nationalism and commemoration, featuring Diarmuid Ó Donnabháin Rosa

• Education and institutions, with an article on the Allin Institute

• Environmental and urban history, documenting the Bandon floods of 1875

• Civic and associational life, including Orange Lodge activity in Bandon (1902)

• Eighteenth-century Bandon, examining the town’s development and society

• Society business, including membership and programme details for 1988

In this issue:

• Early modern and imperial history, including the English East India Company at Dundaniel and Sir William Hull in seventeenth-century Bandon

• Townscape and social history, with a study of the residents of Devonshire Square

• Personal and documentary sources, featuring the journal of William Keyes McDonnell

• Ecclesiastical and religious life, including an article on Archbishop William Mark Duke

• Language, culture, and memory, with reflections on Irish in Bandon fifty years ago

• Everyday material culture, including a study of Bandon bottles

• Irish-language writing and cultural commentary

• Revolutionary history and personal testimony, with a memoir of involvement in Irish independence

• Society life and community activity, including the Cumann Seanchais na Banndan programme for 1987

In this issue:

• Social and institutional history, including a detailed study of the Bandon Workhouse

• Accidents and everyday life, with an account of a tragic railway incident in Bandon

• Language, culture, and memory, examining Irish in Bandon fifty years ago

• Industrial and commercial history, featuring Bandon Steel Works (1934) and the Bandon Mint

• Material culture and landscape, including a study of a millstone from Bandon

• Archival research on nineteenth-century Bandon drawn from the Lismore Papers

• Irish-language writing and local history

• Religious life and denominations, with an article on Presbyterianism in Bandon

In this issue:

• Industrial and economic history, including studies of Overton Cotton Mill and early manufacturing in Bandon

• Early modern landed society, with an examination of Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, as proprietor and industrialist

• Scientific and biographical history, featuring Cornelius O’Sullivan, chemist and Bandonian

• Irish-language scholarship and local historical writing

• Urban and cartographic history, exploring sources for the development of the Irish town of Bandon

• Social and domestic life, including life at Overton House and everyday experiences in nineteenth-century Bandon

• Language and memory, with reflections on Irish in Bandon fifty years ago

• Religious, civic, and communal life, including church dedications and visits to Bandon in the late nineteenth century

• Local commerce and tradition, from mart life to the walls of Bandon

• Historic photographs documenting streets, fairs, bridges, and community bands

In this issue:

• Early modern and landed history, including a study of Richard Boyle, First Earl of Cork (1566–1643)

• Maritime and river history, with articles on lost ships and life along the River Bandon

• Parish and ecclesiastical history, covering Bandon, Kilbrogan, and Templetrine

• Biographical and religious studies, including the life of An tAthair Domhnal Ó Suilleabháin

• Educational development in Bandon, tracing technical and vocational education from 1901 to 1980

• Language, memory, and community life, with reflections on Irish in Bandon fifty years ago

• Architectural heritage, including the new entrance to St Patrick’s Church, Bandon

• Custom and tradition, featuring articles on the Old May Fair and local life in Kilpatrick